Scots & the Sea is a unique & compelling account of a small, sparsely populated country's relationship with the most powerful force on earth. It is a celebration of the courage & endurance of fishermen & their families, the selfless bravery of lifeboat volunteers & the individual brilliance of leaders like Admiral Cochrane, who helped establish free nations across the globe. The illicit activities of scoundrels like Captain Kidd also provide a taste of the darker side of the story. Scotland's proud maritime tradition is traced through this volume, which examines the development of trade, the founding of a Scottish merchant navy & the pressures towards Union with Engl&. It explores ports, harbours & shipyards, & outlines the vital role Scotland has played in shipbuilding & marine engineering
- from the galleys & longships of early history to clippers, steamships, ocean liners, hovercraft & oil rigs. Also recounted are the exploits & achievements of Scots in all these fields, including those of James Watt, William Symington, Henry Bell & Robert Stevenson. Finally it takes a look into the future, where Scottish research into wave & tidal power could become vital in providing a source of sustainable energy. Over the years, many Scots have made their living & their fortune from the sea, others have lost their lives to it.
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Ignoring the mythology which surrounds Scotland & her favourite tipple, this is a book in which Scots tell the truth about their national drink. It is written by people who are passionate about their subject, who know what they write about & who love what they know. It is about whisky & about Scotland
- the real Scotland behind the invented one of advertisrs & the gift shops. Over the last 30 years Scots hace reasserted their cultural independence, redicovering their national drink
- a renaissance not only to be celebrated by Scots but also by the rest of the world, which has not been slow to appreciate single malt whiskies.

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Scott Fitzgerald follows the life of one of America's most enduring authors, from his early years in St Paul & at Princeton to New York in the twenties, the French Riviera, Baltimore, & finally Hollywood. Andrew Turnbull tells the story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, revised & finally published when he was twenty-four, making him instantly famous, & his tender love affair with Zelda Sayre, from their glittering early life to the years Zelda spent in & out of sanatoriums. A literary generation, too, comes alive, including Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson & Edith Wharton. Fitzgerald lived on Turnbull's family estate in Baltimore in the early 1930s & there befriended young Andrew, then aged eleven. Turnbull's personal relationship with Fitzgerald & the hundreds of interviews with those who knew him elegantly capture the dramatic, tragic story of F. Scott & the glow & pathos of his flamboyant life. ...

Duncan Macmillan's suptuous story of art in Scotland from the fifteenth century was the first comprehensive on the subject for 40 years when it was first published in 1990. Rapturously recived by the critics, it rapidly became regarded as the definitive book on the subject. Now updated to take account of developments in the art world over the last ten years, this new edition, Scottish Art 1460-2000, looks set to emulate its predecessor's success. ' An ambitious study that connects Scottish painting to the Eurpean tradition over five centuris, while examining with intelligence, wit & inmagination the Scottishness of Scottish art. The way in which indigenous origionality infiltrates tradition is the theme of this affectionate, commited survey. This book puts Scottish art into a proper perspective & must be seen as the definitive study'- Marina Vaizey, sumday Times Author The undisputed expert in his field, Prifessor Duncan Macmillan is reader in fine art & curator of the Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh. He has written a number of books & is the art critic for The Scotsman. ...

Providing an invaluable guide to the surnames of Scotland each entry in this book covers the history, areas of family lands, castles & tartans (ancient & modern) associated with the powerful clans of the Highlands
- & the great families of the Lowlands.
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Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last 400 years. Until now, they have been written about in general terms. ...

Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last 400 years. Until now, they have been written about in general terms. ...

What would the world be like without the phone, the fax or television? How would it have developed without effective steam power or the oil industry? Could you survive without penicillin or antiseptic surgery? d? There is no simple answer. SCOTTISH FIRSTS, originally produced From Napier's bones to Dolly the sheep, Scottish Firsts celebrates the remarkable achievements of a small country whose influence has helped to shape the modern world. It tells the engrossing stories of Scotland's heroes from William Murdoch, inventor of gas lighting, who went to his first job interview wearing a wooden top hat, to Ian Donald, whose prototype of the pregnancy scanner included a contraceptive sheath. Scottish Firsts also explores some of the lesser-known achievements of Scots both at home & abroad, from the Buick car to the Thomson steamer; the first branded fruit cordial to the Cona T coffee percolator. It lists everything from sporting firsts to some of the world's most extreme environments that have been named after Scots. This absorbing compendium of facts is an essential reference companion as well as an intriguing read for proud Scots everywhere. ...

In this, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed first volume of"ations about our national sport, Kenny Mac Donald delves once more into Scotland's sweaty, smelly football dressing-rooms & emerges with a batch of statements which are profond, amusing, acerbic & sometimes plain bizarre. ...